diff --git a/mail/fetchmail/Makefile b/mail/fetchmail/Makefile
index 40c2e00ae532..43740f9b6a58 100644
--- a/mail/fetchmail/Makefile
+++ b/mail/fetchmail/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 PORTNAME?=	fetchmail
 DISTVERSION=	6.4.12
-PORTREVISION?=	2
+PORTREVISION?=	3
 CATEGORIES=	mail
 # The next line is inherited by the fetchmailconf slave port,
 # do NOT replace fetchmail by ${PORTNAME}
diff --git a/mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmail.in b/mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmail.in
index c18ce122d982..0ddfa16727f3 100644
--- a/mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmail.in
+++ b/mail/fetchmail/files/fetchmail.in
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ fetchmail_awaken()
 # query a value from the fetchmail config file, value specified in first argument
 fetchmail_dump_config()
 {
-	su -m ${fetchmail_user} -c sh -c "fetchmail -f ${fetchmail_config} --configdump" | fgrep $1 | cut -d: -f2
+	su -m ${fetchmail_user} -c "/bin/sh -c 'fetchmail -f ${fetchmail_config} --configdump'" | fgrep $1 | cut -d: -f2
 }
 
 # arguments: